Financial Resilience

Making money is just one part of the multi-faceted process in which one can attain not only financial independence, but also financial resilience, which is the ability to keep a steady income, regardless of the surrounding context.

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  • Optimize For What’s Necessary

    Optimize For What’s Necessary

    Technology optimizes for performance. Business optimizes for profit. Biological evolution optimizes for survival. Spirituality optimizes for compassion (non-aggression). How does this work out in real life? Performance Optimizations To be successful, any technology must optimize for performance. That means running the same process with less energy, in less time, or with greater accuracy. Take computers,…

  • The Only Investor Test You Will Ever Need

    The Only Investor Test You Will Ever Need

    I’m a geek. I like geeky things. And I never made a secret out of the fact that I like, from a geeky perspective, cryptocurrencies. 10 years after Bitcoin was created, I still have my a-ha moments when I encounter some novel use of cryptography and finance, like DeFi, or NFT. Because of this open…

  • Emotional Stability

    Emotional Stability

    Yesterday, Bitcoin crashed. Again. If you’re new to crypto, this event is similar with a stock market crash. The price goes down very fast, triggering all sorts of mechanisms which only add to the velocity. The end result: about $2.6 billions wiped out in account liquidations. In simpler words: people who trusted the price will…

  • Don’t Shop On An Empty Stomach

    Don’t Shop On An Empty Stomach

    It’s a simple rule. Yet so powerful. If you’re hungry, first try to understand why you’re hungry in the first place. If you really are hungry, and it’s not something else, then just eat something quick, then go shopping. And by “shopping” I understand everything related to how you spend your accumulated value. But first,…

  • Too Much Is Just As Bad As Too Little

    Too Much Is Just As Bad As Too Little

    And by “too much”, I’m referring precisely to money. Too much money is just as bad as too little. I hear you. I hear your loud voice shouting: “oh, dear God, just give me that too much money, and I’ll show you how well I can manage it”. I understand. Pretty much every person I…

  • A Good Habit Is An Invisible Habit

    A Good Habit Is An Invisible Habit

    Every day, in the morning, I do a little bit of yoga. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I just do some stretching. If you know what I’m talking about, it’s just a few Surya Namaskar, a tree, frog and sometimes a headstand asanas. In a year, I don’t think I skip more…

  • Humans As Investment

    Humans As Investment

    Every once in a while I stumble upon something interesting. Like, really interesting. If it’s also related to one of the topics I chose to cover in this blog, then I’m also writing about it. Today, it’s about investment – which clearly falls under the financial resilience topic, something that I write about a lot.…

  • Selling Skills Versus Delegating Capital

    Selling Skills Versus Delegating Capital

    Although it may sound cryptic, the words above are the key to one of the most important breakthrough one can have in this lifetime. I know these are big words, but I stand by them. Selling Skills The most affordable way to generate value is to sell your skills. Most of the time there is…

  • Generative NFTs

    Generative NFTs

    I know the title is a bit cryptic (pun intended, as it relates to a crypto-currencies related product) but nevertheless is interesting. And not that complicated. Bear with me, it will be fun. If you read my bog for a while, then you know what NFT stand for: Non-Fungible Tokens. And NFT is a representation…

  • How Much Money Do You Really Need?

    How Much Money Do You Really Need?

    In case you don’t see the featured image for this post, I’ll summarize it for you: it’s a Ricky Gervais tweet, with him holding a cat, and this caption: When I was really poor, I got so fed up with having only T shirts and old sweat pants to wear, that I tried to make…